Recognition of her work came with the Smarties Prize in 1988 for Can It Be True?, the WH Smith Illustration Award in 1991 for The Hidden House and being shortlisted for the Kurt Maschler Award in 1984 and 1989 and the Kate Greenaway Medal in 1993 for Beware, Beware! Relato corto, o más bien folclórico, que cuenta como el diablo aparece en víspera de Navidad en la aldea de Dikanka (Ucrania) para vengarse de un herrero por haberse atrevido a pintarlo de una manera que no le place. Un herrero llamado Vakula , que esta enamorado de la más bella coqueta del pueblo. Totally different book than American writer, "Clement C. Moore's" "The Night Before Christmas". Moore's book is all "visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads" while Gogol's book has the devil running amok on the night before Christmas.

I have said it from memory to my kids and maybe one grandkid, though now whole swatches of it have washed down the drain with other hurricane detritus. A scan of the poem, which was printed in the December 29, 1877 issue of ‘Home Circle’ newspaper, published from Boston. Read it again aloud last night. Merry Christmas, to all you who celebrate this day in one way or another, and may you have a happier New Year! Do you think I'm joking? We've gotta have a roll call of ALL the sins before they can all be signed off. This is a GLORIOUS tribute to a truly Russian Xmas. It's not hard to find the devil if he rides on your shoulder! Marshall, Nancy H. (2002). The night before Christmas: a descriptive bibliography of Clement Clarke Moore's immortal poem with editions from 1823 through 2000. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press. ISBN 978-1584560715.

The plot begins with a call from a worried wife, which leads the police to a vandalized home, an incident that initially appears unrelated to the disappearance of the four men. The slow unfolding of the connection between these events adds depth to the story. Christmas is this pine-scented, tinsel-strewn timeout where, like it or not, everything just… stops. […] And all this is made possible because – thanks to the little baby Jesus – you no longer have to work. Well, most of you don’t. The NHS sadly doesn’t get invited to Christ’s all-you-can-eat birthday shindig.” It was so worth the wait. As soon as I got in from work I sat myself down with the book and a cup of tea and didn’t stop reading until I’d read every last word. Kay is, without any shadow of a doubt, hilarious. He relays his experiences of his six Christmases as an NHS doctor with so much candour that you feel like he’s talking directly to you.

So get your seasonal beverage of choice, cozy up by the fire, and get down with some goofy Gogol. It is a charming little read with a happy ending and it will make the season bright. Amongst the hilarity of this book, there are some more sombre events that really make you stop and think. They are handled with such delicacy, Adam Kay really is a brilliant writer (and comedian).Esta novela corta pertenece a un compendio mucho más grande llamado "Veladas en Dikanka". Con esta serie de relatos Gógol pretendía, ante todo, hacer despegar su carrera literaria. Estamos en los primeros pasos del romanticismo ruso y hay mucho ganapán imitando novelas románticas europeas. Gógol, viendo el panorama, dijo: "Bien, pues voy a hablar de mi tierra". They had set off for a trial hunt the day before but none of them have returned. They are all seasoned hunters but the weather has turned foul and their families are worried. James is hopeful that they will turn up safe and well having taken shelter but when he discovers one of the missing men has had his house trashed and the word Murderer daubed on the wall he soon realises that yet again he is going to miss his family Xmas for the 4th year in a row. This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sourcesin this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.